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after Skelleftea, also HIFK Helsinki must go back home from their trip in South Tyrol with a loss in their bag...

Bolzano/Bozen let the Finns do the most of the job, but were just unstoppable in counter attacks and once again did benefit from an excellent job between the pipes by Leland Irving...

I must admit I didn't expect them to have such kind of success at this stage of the season...generally, they were used to letargic start of their season, but this time they've built a very interesting team that could be able to play for the higher ranks in the EBEL regular season and should even reach the KO stages of the Champions League (which would be a premiere for them)...

p.s. and hopefully, the newcomers Daniel Catenacci and Andrew Crescenzi (they were considered even as NHL prospects until a few years ago) will be also an interesting boost for our National Team, provided they're going to play in Bolzano enough time to become eligible for the Blue Team)...

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despite an early lead, they've been outplayed by Skelleftea and finally lost 2-1...

now they're tied with HIFK in the standings, but they have to play twice the weakest team of the group, GKS Tychy (0 points in 4 games so far), meanwhile the Finns have to face the Swedish Elitserien's runner-up Skelleftea in the last couple of games of their group...so, if everything goes according to plan, they should still be able to qualify for the knockout stage without too many problems...